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R. A. DENISON. Carpet-Lining.

No. 228,734. Patented June 15,1880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RUSSEL A. DENISON, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

CARPET-LINING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 228,734, dated June 15, 1880. Application filed April 21, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RUssEL A. DENIsoN, of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Carpet-Linings; and Ido hereby declare that the followingspecification, taken in connection with the drawings making a part of the same, is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Figure 1 shows a piece of my improved lining. Fig. 2 shows a metal fastening for the same. Fig. 3 shows another form of fastenmg.

The object of my invention is to produce a carpet-lining at a less cost, which shall be more durable than those now in use, and at the same time capable of both fully protecting the carpet from wear and of allowing the dirt to pass through it; and it consists in the improvements hereinafter described.

In the use of ingrain and other like grades of carpets the dirt easily works through and collects between the carpet and the lining in such quantities that any unusual stir or heavy walking over it causes the dust to rise, which is not only ofiensive, but renders necessary much labor in removing it from furniture, &c.

My improved lining is composed, as usual, of a layer of cotton between two sheets of paper; but instead of securing the same together by sewing I make use of a hollow metallic fastening, (shown in Figs. 2 and3,) which leaves openings through the lining for the passage of the dirt.

In the drawings, A, Fig. 1, is a piece of carcut or punched through the material, has its edge upon the smaller end turned over and outward upon the lining. The second, of which a side and top view is given in Fig. 3, is made from a thin square piece of metal, and hasits center out into four points, which are bent outward until they stand at right angles to their former position. These points are easily forced through the lining and turned over upon the other side, thus making a fastening, C, Fig. 1, open in the center, as before described.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The carpet-linin g A, composed of a layer of cotton between two sheets of paper, the whole secured together by metallic fastenii'lgs so made and attached to the material that a hollow channel will be left through the center of the same for the passage of the dirt.

RUSSEL A. DENISON.

Witnesses:

GEORGE A. RICHARDS, WALTER B. VINCENT. 

